The World: Latest Stories

One linguist says in a way, the Magic City feels some shame about its Latin heritage.

Would collecting census data about Americans of Middle Eastern and North African descent lead to more discrimination or more services?

There is a lot of bling buried in the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. But the beach "gold miners" say there are fewer treasures than there used to be.

America is deeply involved in the Syrian conflict(s). What do the candidates plan on doing about it?

This Pakistani politician got into office on a women's quota system. Now she's giving millions of women a leg up.

You can't make beer without hops, but climate change is threatening the future of the crop in a place that grows a quarter of all the world's supply — Washington state. That's got growers and brewers there and around the world scrambling to make changes to improve the resilience and sustainability of their industry.

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has earned friends and foes nationwide for his tough stance on illegal immigration. Now, immigrants and their allies in several US states are mobilizing to get him out of office.

Steven Petrow offers up his suggestions for making your social media life compatible with the current, heated political climate.

Despite the dangers, Mosul citizens are reporting the news right under the noses of ISIS.

Um-E Salma was just 17 when she was married. And she was scared. But she wouldn't let the marriage, or the daughter who came a little while later, deter her from her dreams. And now she's hoping her daughter has a better path.

Who's to blame? Two militant groups have taken credit. Pakistan's army blames a third group. And some point fingers at the army itself, accusing security forces of fostering the very extremist groups now attacking the country.

Ninth-graders in the "immigrant city" of Lawrence, Massachusetts dig into global gender issues during a Model UN meeting.

Dueling narrators in Newman's lively satire play with Putin's name and his hyper-manly image.

With recent announcements by companies like SpaceX, experts say the technology get us to Mars may not be far off — if we’re ready to live there.

Climate scientist Gordon Hamilton died in Antarctica over the weekend when his snowmobile plunged into a deep glacial crevasse. His research in Antarctica and Greenland focused on the relationship between melting ice sheets and rising sea levels.

Donald Trump has criticized the Obama administration for failing to use the element of surprise in the current military offensive on the Iraqi city of Mosul. But is that a valid complaint? And does it even make a difference?

She's sheltering hundreds of neighbors in her house, running a school and orphanage, and trying to get clean water to those in need.

Fear and boredom are front and center in territory held by ISIS extremists in Iraq.

More female police officers means more stability for everyone, researchers say. Meet one policewoman in Pakistan helping to bear that out.

Migrants lugging their meager belongings boarded buses Monday under a French plan to raze the notorious camp that has become a symbol of Europe's refugee crisis.

Sabir Zazai fled Afghanistan and made a new life in Coventry, England. Now he helps recently arrived refugees through some of the same struggles he's had.

With less than three weeks before election day and three bizarre presidential debates behind us, an unexpected group is on the ground stumping hard for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton: The Social Democratic Youth of Denmark.

Ceasefires in Syria and Yemen last week were broken by fighting. But that doesn't mean they were a waste.

Support for Israel is stronger among American evangelicals than it is even among American Jews.

Every three years or so, the Convention on International Trade Of Endangered Species (CITES) meets to determine the best way to protect plants and animals traded across borders. The most recent meeting was deemed a great success by most of the participants.

According to Greek mythology, trees in a certain grove spoke with the gift of prophecy. There are many stories of talking trees, from the Disney film Pocohontas to the Lord of the Rings. Now, a German forester says trees actually can talk — at least to each other.

No longer just taxi alternatives, ride-booking apps like Uber are striking deals to supplement or replace transit and parking options in some cities.

Seeing isn’t perceiving. When we pause at a museum to study a painting, our brains get to work.

In Indonesia, where record-pressing plants went out of business decades ago, vinyl is enjoying a renaissance. Here’s how a new generation of collectors is finding their treasures.

Mike Massimino has been to space twice to repair the Hubble Telescope, but his career as an astronaut wasn’t always likely.

In 2010 cartoonist Sarah Glidden tagged along with journalist friends as they traveled to Turkey, Iraq and Syria to report on those displaced by the war in Iraq. "Rolling Blackouts" features her hand-drawn observations.

She didn't hear opera performed until she was in high school, but she knew immediately it was her calling.

The terror group's image as the bringer of the apocalypse has been shattered. But they're already adapting.

Valerie Hunter Gordon died this month at the age of 94. She invented one of the first disposable diapers, cutting prototypes out of military parachute silk that she stitched on her living room table.

Trace your family tree back far enough, and you'll likely find an immigrant or a refugee. Even seemingly homogenous populations, like Ireland's, have had plenty of them over time, coming in and going out. Germany is now integrating almost a million refugees who have come in over the past year. In the face of such changes, how do people in each country consider, expand or defend their identities?

Sana Mir is well-known as a cricket star — and rightly so. She's put women's cricket in Pakistan on the international stage. But she's also changing perceptions of what it means to be a Pakistani woman, at home and abroad.

It's hard to imagine the life of a refugee. A new exhibit from Doctors Without Borders hopes to make it easier.

The city councilors in Brockton, a city in Massachusetts, have decided to wait until after the presidential election to vote on a measure to make life easier for undocumented immigrants.

Most Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border and they're sick to death of the negative and dispiriting tone of the American presidential campaign. So one ad agency came up with a great big hug of a social media campaign to reassure Americans that they're already great.

The city of Boise, Idaho, is taking in a lot of Syrian refugees: 122 so far this year. Asmaa Albukaie, who arrived in November 2014, was the first.

When Mexican American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz heard Donald Trump use the phrase "bad hombres" during the presidential debate, he knew it was going to be one of the lines of the night. Then he got to work.

Major League Baseball is filled with players from Latin America and the Caribbean. Now it's searching for prospects in Africa.

It’s not that Indian Americans favor Trump. It’s that Trump reminds many of his Hindu supporters of a political movement in India.

Back in 2009 Iranians went to the polls to vote for a new president. The polling stations closed late at night and only a few hours later, the winner was announced. Many said that wasn't enough time to count the votes.

A crisis is building at the US-Mexico border as thousands of Haitians make their way there from Brazil, migrating as the South American country's economy tanks.

During Wednesday night's presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump referenced his trip to Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, likening the city to the Caribbean country, saying that people there "hate the Clintons because what's happened in Haiti with the Clinton Foundation." Clinton defended the foundation's work, comparing its accomplishments to those of the Trump Foundation's. It underscored the complicated feelings about Clinton among Haitian-Americans.

In Afghanistan, survival meant escaping the Taliban. In Belgium it means learning Dutch.

The US will resettle close to 85,000 refugees from across the globe here this year. Many have been ending up in Boise, Idaho. So many in fact, that the city now has a special police officer assigned to that community.

We spoke to Liz Castro, author of “Many Grains of Sand: A sourcebook of ideas for changing the world, tried and tested in Catalonia,” about why Catalans want to break away from Spain.

The Trump brand might seem like a hard sell these days — especially in Latin America. But a couple of years ago, Brazilian businessman Paulo Figueiredo Jr. backed an ambitious project: building South America’s first Trump hotel.